Alfred Norris – Class 2 – He Learned Obedience By the Things He Suffered

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We’re now ready to begin our
second talk, which is entitled

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He learned Obedience by the
Things He Suffered, whether

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Alfred Norris, Alfred.
I sometimes think we don’t fully

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appreciate the benefits and
blessings in our understanding

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of scripture, particularly this
present topic.

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We stem from the fact that we do
not believe in the doctrine of

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the Trinity.
Our usual approach to that

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subject is to show quite
convincingly from Scripture that

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the Lord our God is 1 Lord.
That there is one God the Father

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and one Lord Jesus Christ.
That whenever the Lord Jesus

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Christ and His Father are
mentioned together, the Lord

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adopts or is given a subordinate
position to His Father.

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And that when the Lord Jesus
returns to the earth and

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conquers the nations, he will
remain in control until such

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time as He hath put all enemies
under his feet.

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And then, when it is said He
putteth all things under his

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feet, it is manifest that he is
accepted, which did put all

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things under him, that the Son
shall be subject to the Father,

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that God may be All in all.
So we have an excellent starting

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platform for which to
contemplate what was done when

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the Lord Jesus Christ died for
our sins.

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According to the Scriptures, we
start with one who is by his own

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confession and in his own
pleasure Son of God, who came to

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do His Father’s will, and who
did nothing of himself.

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We start with one, however, who
is unlike us in this important

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particular that his father is
not like our fathers.

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That he had no immediate human
father, that he became the being

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he was born as because the Holy
Spirit came upon his mother and

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the power of the Most High
overshadowed her, so that for

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that reason her child could and
must be called the Son of God.

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Now they will rewrite that story
in the interest of the doctrine

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of the Trinity, and they will
say that the Lord Jesus Christ

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was but the manifestation in
flesh of God eternally pre

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existent.
They will tell us that the birth

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of the Lord Jesus Christ wasn’t
really like what we understand

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by our naive acceptance of Luke
chapter One, but was something

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like this invent problems for
themselves in doing so.

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For they say God has always been
a triune being, and in that

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being there are three.
For one of a better term we call

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it English persons, and that
those persons are to be known as

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God the Father, God the Son, and
God the Holy Ghost or Spirit.

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And that it was long ages ago,
in the harmony of their divine

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councils, that it was decided
that person called God the Son,

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should come to the earth and
become also men.

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They do not, when they’re
speaking carefully, speak of the

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birth of Christ, they speak of
His incarnation.

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He’s putting on a flesh.
And they tell us that as far as

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we can understand such things,
the real circumstances were that

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eternal God, the second person
of the Godhead, voluntarily

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entered within the body of the
Virgin and took flesh from her

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womb and became also man.
So what emerged into the

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daylight of publicity when the
Lord was 30 human years old, was

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somebody whom, distastefully,
they sometimes call the God man,

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no less God than he was man
perfectly, both mount together

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in one being, and the choice of
both, in that nothing could go

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wrong with the God, and nothing
did go wrong with his manhood.

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And of course, by that day they
obliged themselves to admit when

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they are speaking candidly, that
the Lord was not what the Bible

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says.
He was made in all points, like

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unto his brethren.
But he was not what the Bible

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says.
He was tempted in all points,

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like as we are yet without sin,
that he did not undergo the

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experiences in need of tight
temptation that you and I do.

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For how could he, even though in
his manhood he was by his own

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choice weak and frail, and
capable of suffering and sorrow

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as well as joy and hunger, as
well as repretion?

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Yes, in all the things that
belong to his manhood there lies

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in control and unavoidable.
His divinity would say he was,

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is, and remains God.
And God, we know, cannot be

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tempted with evil.
Neither tempteth he any man.

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And it is an essential part of
the fact that it be a fact that

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Jesus Christ is God, that he
should not be able to respond to

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the forces of evil.
The temptation as we know the

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Word could be no part of his
experiences, if I can put it

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crudely, even if the manly side
nature of the nature of the Lord

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Jesus Christ had felt very urged
to do what man likes to do the

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godless, I couldn’t have let
him, for God can’t sin and that

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man well complete, all of him
was God and man.

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So logically and strictly, and
in some cases quite admittedly,

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they can’t accept the real
temptations of the Lord.

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Sufferings.
Yes, death, by some means that

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none of us can understand, Yes,
that too they accept.

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But temptations in the sense
that he might have yielded that

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yielding was possible.
The battle had to be fought to

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maintain his righteousness.
That cannot be a part of

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Trinitarian teaching, but it can
be a part of ours.

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It can and must be a part of
ours.

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The great glory of our
understanding of the Lord Jesus

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Christ, which they don’t like us
to have, is that we can stand

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back and look at him who sits
now at the right hand of God,

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with marks in hand and feet
inside, and possibly the scars

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of the crown of thorns, and the
residue of the wheels wrought by

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the lashes that lashed his back.
We can look at the Lord Jesus

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Christ, and triumph in him, and
say, God worthy.

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For thou was slain, and has to
redeem this unto God by thy

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blood out of every kindred and
tribe and people and tongue, and

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we can acclaim his victory.
And so there sits one who,

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against all the human odds, one
through there sits one who, when

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we would many times, almost
always in the same

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circumstances, have yielded
ourselves to the desires of the

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flesh, kept them at Bay, kept
them tame, help them in

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subjection, won his daily
battles for God, being tempted

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in all points like as we are,
yet without sin.

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Would you read with me the
letter to the Hebrews chapter 5

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much of the earlier part of this
passage?

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We shall not need that.
It’s needed to give us a a

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connected recitation.
So I’d like to begin at the

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beginning and go as far as verse
10 Hebrews Tithe the 1st 10

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verses for every high priest
taken from among men is ordained

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from men in things pertaining to
God, that he may offer both

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gifts and sacrifices for sins.
Who can have compassion on the

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ignorant, and on them that are
out of the way?

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For that he himself also is
compassed with infirmity, and by

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reason thereof he ought As for
the people, so also for himself

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to offer for sins.
And no man taketh dishonor upon

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himself, but he that is called
of God, as was Aaron.

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So also Christ glorified not
himself to be made a high

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priest, but neither said unto
him, Thou art my son this day

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have I begotten thee, as he said
also in another place, Thou art

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a priest forever after the order
of Melchizedek.

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Who?
That’s Jesus, who in the days of

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his flesh, when he had offered
up prayers and supplications,

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with strong crying and tears
unto him, that was able to save

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him from death, and was heard in
that he feared though he were a

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son, yet learned he obedience by
the things that he suffered.

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And being made perfect, he
became the author of eternal

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salvation unto all them that
obey him called of God and High

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Priest after the order of
Melchizedek.

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In those messages we begin with
the Lord Jesus Christ preparing

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for and acquiring the office of
priesthood.

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We know that he, no more than
anybody else, took it upon

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himself without being asked that
he, like Aaron, waited to be

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asked before he did it.
And as God had appointed Aaron

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for the temporary office,
discharged by himself and his

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successors as high priests over
Tabernacle and then temple, so

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the Lord Jesus Christ bided the
time till the Lord declared it

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to be right that the priesthood
should change, and accepted the

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office.
When it came to him, he did not

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glorify himself to being a high
priest.

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He did not grasp that the office
of being a high priest, he did

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what God had wanted him to do,
when beforehand he declared that

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my son this day have I begotten
thee, and again, now the priest

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forever after the order of
Melchizedek.

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As with everything in his life,
the Lord took what he was

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offered by the one who offered
it, to do the will of the one

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who offered it, and became a
high priest for God in things

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pertaining to men.
Now the words that follow that

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with strong crying and tears he
called on him that was able to

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save him out of death, and was
heard for his godly fear.

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That’s the English revised
version revealed to us the

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depths of what the Lord must
suffer, and the dungeon of

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hopelessness into which he must
willingly sink if he would

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become the one who is to be our
high priest.

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He sobbed, saw tears that God
would strengthen him to

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overcome, that the will of God
should not fail in his hands,

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that he should accept his death
in such a way that God might

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save him out of death, and that
he might become our perfected

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high priest.
Those words, though he were a

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son, yet learned he obedience,
see most as though they might

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have been written.
Then why should it not be so

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with the prescience of God, who
could see all things from the

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beginning to provide an answer
that cannot be gained, said for

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the Orthodox of our own day.
For they would say, because he

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was a son, there could be no
suffering of temptation, But he

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would says, though he were a
son, yet did he learn obedience

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by the things that he suffered.
He learned obedience the hard

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way, as we would say, not your
kind of hard way and mine.

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When we learn obedience to the
extent to which we do, we learn

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it.
Because we found out how painful

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it was to disobey, we decided
we’d rather not be hurt like

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that again, and so we decide
next time to do as we’re told.

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But the Lord was not like that.
He was never disobedient, but He

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was never allowed, not ever
wanted to find it easy to be

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obedient.
He learned obedience by the

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things that He suffered,
accepted steadfastly the path of

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duty was ever it cost, was
prepared to endure the strong

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crying and tears to which he was
driven by the need to suffer in

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the service of God, and did it
faultlessly.

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Suppose I asked you the
question, Did Jesus Christ live

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a perfect life?
Unless you had been forewarned,

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I think you would all say yes.
Of course.

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If you’d heard me perhaps others
address this topic before, you

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might hesitate a little and say,
ah, he lived a life in which he

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did no sin.
He lived a thoughtless life.

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His behaviour from beginning to
end was spotless.

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And I would say, yes, that was a
better way of putting it.

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The word being perfect, or more
correctly, being perfected, is

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only used, I think, four times
about Jesus, once by him and

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three times about him.
The one by him is in Luke

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chapter 13.
Well, the advice to run away

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from the possible wrath of
Herod.

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He stays where he is and says to
them, go, tell that fox, I do

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close today, and tomorrow, and
the third day I shall be

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perfected, And it seems that
there is an intentional

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comparison there between the
Lord’s helping other people to

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get their bodies right.
I do curious to death tomorrow

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and the Lord expectation that
shortly afterwards he will

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himself be perfected, as though
to admit that there was

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something falling just short of
perfect in his present

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condition.
I said conditioned not

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behaviour.
His behaviour was never short of

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spotless, but I’ve scold myself.
I’ve tried to not to use the

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word perfect about it because
the Bible doesn’t.

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The Bible says the Lord expected
to be perfected, not that he

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claimed to be perfect.
The Bible says that the Lord, in

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answer to the rich young man
said, why call this army good?

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There is no good at one that is
gone and that throughout his

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life the Lord looked forward to
a time when perfection would be

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His that needs perhaps a self
defensive word of explanation.

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I don’t think there is a thing
to be said against anything the

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Lord did or said, or entertained
permanently in his thoughts.

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Everything the Lord did and said
and allowed to take root in His

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mind without fault, He did no
sin.

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Neither was Guile found in his
mouth.

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But you don’t say.
Things like that about the Lord

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without realizing that
implication.

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To say he.
Did no sin will be meaningless

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if he couldn’t, could not have
done any sin.

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To say he behaved faultlessly is
no commendation to him if he was

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bound to be faultlessly.
To say he did.

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Always those things that please
his father as he said himself.

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Will be an.
Idol to boast if he could do

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nothing else to please his
father, if the way he was built

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was such that pleasing his
father was part of his make up

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all those things like he did no
sin that no guile was found in

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his mouth.
That he did.

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Always those things that please
his father, that my meat is to

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do the with him that sent me,
and to finish his work.

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They all rest inevitably upon
the possibility that it could

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have been otherwise.
You don’t.

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Commend a man for being what he
can’t help being.

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You don’t say what a wonderful
person you must be.

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You were so handsome when you
were born, which is quite

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irrelevant.
You say how well you have

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behaved in face of the
possibility.

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So you might.
Have behaved differently.

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The example I gave.
In the first talk.

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That when the Lord.
Insisted on being baptized when

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he might have accepted John’s
suggestions to the contrary.

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He went into and came out of the
water, and the Spirit of God

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came to heaven in the shape of a
dog.

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And God said yes, and God said.
This is my.

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Beloved Son in whom I am well
pleased.

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Is an indication.
That that was a victory.

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That that was.
A temptation overcome, an

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opportunity of declining from
God’s service detected and

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perceived and rejected.
So that he.

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Might do what God wished him to
do and do it flawlessly.

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God couldn’t usefully have said
I’m very pleased with him.

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Unless he had.
Done something which warranted

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the divine pleasure.
If you’re pleased with her, the

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mechanical thing that can’t do
anything else is because you’ve

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made it rather nicely.
Not because of.

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Any merits in the thing itself?
One can be.

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Personally proud of a robot.
Or any?

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Mechanical or electronic object
one makes because one has

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designed what is needed to make
it and done it right.

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But in this?
Instance.

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There was nothing robotic about
it at all.

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I am very pleased with the way
my son behaves.

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Is what the?
Father said.

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And that must mean that he had
it within his power to behave

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differently and didn’t do so.
I’ve only given you.

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One of the four examples, the
use of the word perfect about

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Jesus.
I’ll skip quickly through the

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other three.
They’re all in the letter to the

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Hebrews, and perhaps you know
them so well that we won’t need

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to turn them up.
But what is in chapter 2?

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Where we read.
It became God in bringing many

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sons unto glory, to make the
captain of their salvation

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perfect.
Through.

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Sufferings notice, make him
perfect.

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You start off with a captain of
our salvation who has not yet

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been made perfect, and you
legitimately consents to be LED.

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Through a path.
That involves his sufferings and

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at the end of that.
He has been made.

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Perfect.
That’s the meaning.

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Of the words, whatever the
reality turns out to be.

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The second is 1.
We’ve just read in Hebrews

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chapter 5 that.
Though he were.

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A son yet learned the obedience
by the things that he suffered

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and being made perfect.
He became the.

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Author of eternal salvation
called of God and High Priest

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after the order of Melchizedek.
And there is, I think there an

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intended contrast between the
Jewish high priests who being so

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compassed about with infirmities
of their own.

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Could with.
Shamed eloquence plead for their

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own sins, and the sins of
others, when they went before

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the throne of grace in the shape
of the most holy place of the

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temple or Tabernacle, and this
person who, whenever he started,

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had got to the point where he
had been made perfect.

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Before he is.
Called by God our High Priest.

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There’s much more to.
Say about this in the last talk.

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But perhaps.
We can anticipate to the extent

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that when the Lord Jesus Christ,
having been made perfect,

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whatever that means, did go into
God’s heavenly temple as our

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High Priest.
He didn’t just.

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Spend a few hours there on one
day of a year.

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But he stayed there and sat down
at the right hand of God.

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That was where he belonged and
belongs, having been made

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perfect.
And the last.

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Example is in the 7th chapter I
think towards the end.

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Well, we are told.
The law appointed high priests

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which have intermity, but God
appointed this one who has been

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consecrated forevermore.
What a pity the King James

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Authorized version said
consecrated.

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He shouldn’t have done.
It’s the same word.

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It’s the only other the last
occasion where the word

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perfected is used about Jesus,
and the Word of God’s author

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appoints our High Priest
perfected forevermore.

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And you can see.
In broad outlines the program

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laid out you started with Jesus
as he was born.

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You go through.
Jesus, as he lives and behaves,

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you come to Jesus of his death.
You see the having died, Lord

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Jesus Christ raised from the
dead and ascending to the right

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hand of God.
And he said there now he has

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been perfected forevermore.
Nothing can ever go wrong with

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the perfected Christ.
How much more?

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Glorious, that is, than to see
the Lord Jesus Christ as the

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Trinitarians, see him as the
eternal God the Son, assuming

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flesh as well, but still being
God beyond the reach of sinning.

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Our Lord was not beyond.
The reach of sitting at all.

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He met it at close quarters.
He met it because of who he was.

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He really be.
Cast as the letter to the Romans

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can say about him what the law
could not do, in that it was

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weak through the flesh, God
sending his own Son in the

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likeness of flesh of sin.
And as an.

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Offering for sin in the flesh
condemned sin.

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I have purposely reworded that.
So that I didn’t.

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Have to say that I’m going to
say it now to dismiss it.

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Sin in the flesh.
In the flesh he overcame sin.

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He defeated sin because God had
sent him in the kind of person

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which made that necessary.
The Lord was.

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In the likeness of flesh of sin,
just like it he made in all

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points like unto his brethren.
And though he were a son, yet

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learned he obedience by the
things that he suffered.

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We must, of course.
Give examples, he was Pour the

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Lord through some of the
temptations of his life and see

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how keen they were, and stand
back and marvel at his

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victories.
We’ve done it.

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Already with his baptism.
We are left.

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From that to his temptations in
the Wilderness, described in

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similar terms in Matthew chapter
4 and in Luke chapter four, with

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one interesting difference that
they’re not given in the same

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order and somebody perhaps will
tell me why if I haven’t run the

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risk of telling you why before
this talk comes to an end.

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But in Matthew there are turn
stones into bread.

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Throw yourself.
Down from this exalted place

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worship me and take all the
kingdoms of the world and.

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Then Luke the.
Other two are reversed.

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It’s turned stones into bread.
Worship me and take the kingdoms

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and throw yourself down from
this exalted place.

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The Matthew 1 looks more
sequential, but the Luke one is

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there.
It’s not the same sequence.

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I don’t believe they contradict.
Yes, I may get succumb to

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telling what I do think they do.
But the moment?

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All three are there.
Let’s look at them, shall we?

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In the Matthew Record, Matthew
chapter 4.

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The 1st 11 verses are the
relevant verses, but we won’t

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necessarily read right through
it.

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We learned.
That Jesus was led by the Spirit

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into the wilderness to be
tempted by the devil.

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Or in Matthew.
That he was driven by the Spirit

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into the wilderness to be
tempted by the devil that was in

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Mark.
I’m sorry, that second one.

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As though the Lord.
Fresh from the victory of his

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baptism, was obliged to meet his
nature in the Roar and deal with

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the temptations to which it
might have succumbed.

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No, I know there are alternative
views of this passage, and I

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know that those who are anxious
to safeguard the total

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righteousness of our Lord and I
will yield to nobody.

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And being anxious to do the same
thing sometimes, be it their

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duty to deny that He could have
thought about the things which I

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here suggested, and for that
reason amongst others, wish to

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take the record completely
literally and make that devil a

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person.
So that there is.

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A dialogue between someone,
whoever he is, or someone’s

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whoever they are, who speak to
the Lord and suggest a course of

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action.
I know.

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Too that such pieces may go
further.

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And they say it wasn’t really
temptation.

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As you and I know it, he’s
rather a trial, a test, a dry

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run to see if he really was the
Son of God.

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Proves you as.
They say this person or person

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said that you really are the
good son of God by doing the

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appropriate signs that make it
impossible to deny it.

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Turn stones into bread.
Throw yourself.

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Under harm from the pinnacle of
the temple and assume some kind

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of authority.
I’m not quite sure what this

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could be.
Over the kingdoms.

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Of the earth.
If you do that, we’ll be obliged

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to believe in you.
That’s what they say.

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And the tests then become not
tests of His integrity and His

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Holiness and his sinlessness,
but test of his office, which

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for other reasons that are
rejected.

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I can’t see it that way.
And I don’t want to.

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I don’t mind if a voice from
outside spoke these words.

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If it is felt.
We must construe Matthew poor

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and Luke for us, meaning that
some.

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All the person.
And the Lord came and spoke the

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words.
If you are the Son of God, turn

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these stones into bread.
If you are the Son of God, throw

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yourself down from this
pinnacle.

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And then all these things I will
give you, you’ll fall down and

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worship me.
If it is told we must.

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Accept that those were spoken by
somebody else.

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I could live with those who
accepted it like that.

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But it doesn’t.
Alter the case at all.

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It has its own.
Problems in how such a one,

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whoever he was, could have given
the Lord all the kingdoms of the

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earth, or could have induced the
Lord to believe that he might

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have done.
But provided that we accept that

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what I’ve always spoken was
understood, perceived, felt and

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rejected, I have no problem
believing that somebody else

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might have said it.
But whoever said it.

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When the words.
If thou be the Son of God,

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turned these stones into bread.
Though I would not.

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Only have known what he meant,
which he obviously would.

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Normally nobody had the power.
To do it.

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We would have.
Felt the urge to do it.

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We’ll have met that urge and
defeated it and gained a

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victory.
Very good goes.

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Out of its way to tell us it was
very, very hungry after a 40

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days passed.
And then he should.

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Put it in that way, it needs me
in no doubt that it was an

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appeal to that hunger.
You don’t need to be hungry.

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All you have to.
Do is to snap your fingers and

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there’ll be a banquet made out
of stones, whatever that was by

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way of proving his office.
And it would have done something

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about that, I suppose it was an
urge to the Lord to do this

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totally unacceptable thing of
taking the powers he possesses

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because he is Son of God and
using them without permission to

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ratify the hunger he suffered
from because he is Son of Man,

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turning God’s powers to human
usage gratuitously, without so

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much as a bag.
You leave, and the Lord’s answer

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to that it is written.
Man doth not live by bread

437
00:31:17,160 –> 00:31:20,040
alone, but by having the word
that proceedeth out of the mouth

438
00:31:20,040 –> 00:31:22,720
of God is an answer not just.
I won’t do it.

439
00:31:24,160 –> 00:31:26,640
But however.
Attempting it may be it would be

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00:31:26,640 –> 00:31:30,720
incompatible with my
relationship with God, whose

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00:31:30,720 –> 00:31:35,240
every word I must follow.
Whose word is life.

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00:31:38,240 –> 00:31:40,840
Interesting.
If you go back to the the part

443
00:31:40,840 –> 00:31:45,160
of Deuteronomy which the Lord is
there quoted, new light comes

444
00:31:45,160 –> 00:31:47,800
into its meaning.
The Lord thy God to do with

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00:31:47,800 –> 00:31:49,440
manner in the wilderness, said
Moses.

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00:31:49,760 –> 00:31:52,400
The Lord might just know the man
does not live by bread alone,

447
00:31:52,720 –> 00:31:54,760
but by every word that
proceedeth from the mouth of

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00:31:54,760 –> 00:31:59,240
God.
God short seconded the course of

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00:31:59,240 –> 00:32:05,320
nature.
When there was no food, the Lord

450
00:32:05,480 –> 00:32:07,080
did.
What had there been food has

451
00:32:07,080 –> 00:32:09,160
taken you hours and days and
weeks to do.

452
00:32:10,280 –> 00:32:12,440
You’d have sown the seed.
The grain would have grown the

453
00:32:12,720 –> 00:32:15,000
the.
Shoots would have ripened.

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00:32:15,000 –> 00:32:16,640
The ears would have ripened on
the shoots.

455
00:32:17,560 –> 00:32:18,760
You would have harbited the
grain.

456
00:32:18,760 –> 00:32:20,480
You would have taken away the
stalk.

457
00:32:20,480 –> 00:32:23,160
You’d have winnered away the
ears, You’d have ground the

458
00:32:23,160 –> 00:32:25,320
grain.
You will bake the flour, and

459
00:32:25,320 –> 00:32:26,640
then you would have been able to
eat it.

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00:32:28,520 –> 00:32:32,200
But the moment God says
pleasure, food thereby, God

461
00:32:32,320 –> 00:32:37,320
proved his power to feed in that
and every other way.

462
00:32:37,680 –> 00:32:42,600
The Lord Jesus Christ knew that.
To be faced.

463
00:32:42,600 –> 00:32:46,440
With the possibility of
anticipating the need for that

464
00:32:46,440 –> 00:32:49,120
by using his own powers for
something he would not do, God

465
00:32:49,120 –> 00:32:54,240
will feed me when it pleases
him, I’m sure, he said.

466
00:32:55,920 –> 00:33:01,360
And having said it once, he
could say it again As for.

467
00:33:01,360 –> 00:33:03,280
Example when he.
Talked to the woman by the well

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00:33:03,280 –> 00:33:06,880
in Samaria John, Chapter 4.
And.

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00:33:07,480 –> 00:33:10,040
His disciples went on into
Psycho to buy bread and they

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00:33:10,040 –> 00:33:11,880
came back and they said Master
eat.

471
00:33:14,800 –> 00:33:19,240
And the Lord who was too busy to
eat at that time, talking to a

472
00:33:19,240 –> 00:33:22,560
woman that was a Sinner and
seeking to assuage her sins,

473
00:33:23,320 –> 00:33:28,560
said, I have meat to eat that
she know not of my meat, is to

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00:33:28,560 –> 00:33:30,840
do the will of him that sent me
to finish his work.

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00:33:32,720 –> 00:33:34,960
And I wouldn’t be surprised.
If the Lord was saying they’re

476
00:33:34,960 –> 00:33:38,320
not just.
I’d rather savour the.

477
00:33:38,320 –> 00:33:43,000
Will of God than gratify my
human appetites, was also saying

478
00:33:43,640 –> 00:33:47,360
God can keep me alive in any way
that suits him while I’m engaged

479
00:33:47,360 –> 00:33:49,480
in his work.
He’s not critical.

480
00:33:49,480 –> 00:33:53,760
I should eat just now.
I can turn to that when this

481
00:33:53,760 –> 00:33:57,640
present meal is over, doing the
will of God.

482
00:34:00,320 –> 00:34:02,800
It’s a very.
Lovely thing that each

483
00:34:02,800 –> 00:34:06,960
temptation the Lord endured in
the wilderness, but boy, it’s

484
00:34:06,960 –> 00:34:10,360
fruits in later life.
But he who would?

485
00:34:10,360 –> 00:34:12,960
Not turn stones to bread on his
own account.

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00:34:14,360 –> 00:34:16,880
Would not.
Multiply food to take him

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00:34:16,880 –> 00:34:19,480
through the journeys which he
must endure in the Lord’s

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00:34:19,480 –> 00:34:22,480
service, but would wait till
somebody gave him a crust to

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00:34:22,480 –> 00:34:24,280
eat.
Or rich.

490
00:34:24,280 –> 00:34:26,480
Women ministered to him of their
substance.

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00:34:27,920 –> 00:34:29,639
Or in the feeding.
Of the 5000.

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00:34:31,120 –> 00:34:32,840
He and his.
Disciples could pick up 12

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00:34:32,880 –> 00:34:36,360
basket full of the scraps they
left behind, and might it be

494
00:34:36,960 –> 00:34:44,440
take them home for supper, using
what men had rejected, who was

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00:34:44,440 –> 00:34:46,400
rich and for our sakes became
poor.

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00:34:49,520 –> 00:34:53,480
So we lose so much if we do not
see that temptation as a

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00:34:53,480 –> 00:34:59,560
temptation in every sense of the
term, all its attractions being

498
00:34:59,560 –> 00:35:03,800
plain to the Lord being seen and
known, and in the full knowledge

499
00:35:03,800 –> 00:35:06,680
of them, rejected.
We don’t do.

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00:35:06,680 –> 00:35:10,040
Any service to the Lord.
My imagine he couldn’t have

501
00:35:10,040 –> 00:35:13,520
thought of things like that,
because if he couldn’t have

502
00:35:13,520 –> 00:35:15,560
thought of them, they couldn’t
have tempted him, and he

503
00:35:15,560 –> 00:35:19,160
couldn’t have won a victory.
And so they could have been

504
00:35:19,160 –> 00:35:21,680
thought about, and they were a
temptation they would totally

505
00:35:21,680 –> 00:35:23,840
overcome.
And there’s a victory not down

506
00:35:23,840 –> 00:35:27,200
to the Lord’s credit, that
without that he would never have

507
00:35:27,200 –> 00:35:30,400
had.
It’s the same with the angels.

508
00:35:32,360 –> 00:35:34,840
How tempting it would have been,
having got to the pinnacle of

509
00:35:34,840 –> 00:35:40,200
the temple, if he did literally
get there, to plunge himself

510
00:35:40,200 –> 00:35:43,040
down from that with absolute
assurance that he’ll give his

511
00:35:43,040 –> 00:35:45,520
angels charge concerning thee,
and in their hands they shall

512
00:35:45,520 –> 00:35:47,760
bear thee up.
This is anytime thou dash thy

513
00:35:47,760 –> 00:35:50,920
foot against a stone and throw
himself down with an admiring

514
00:35:50,920 –> 00:35:55,480
mustard, gaping on and wandering
as he was safely parachuted to

515
00:35:55,480 –> 00:35:59,040
the ground by the angels that
God sent to ensure his safety.

516
00:36:00,800 –> 00:36:02,880
Oh, it would have.
Been a wonderful opportunity of

517
00:36:03,240 –> 00:36:06,040
acting a drama before an
appreciative and gobbling

518
00:36:06,040 –> 00:36:09,800
multitude and having them follow
him for the wonders sake.

519
00:36:12,080 –> 00:36:13,720
And that he would not.
Do that then.

520
00:36:15,320 –> 00:36:17,320
Strengthen him I.
Have no doubt against every

521
00:36:17,320 –> 00:36:20,160
other occasion to do related
things when they desired him

522
00:36:20,160 –> 00:36:22,920
aside from heaven, and they
wouldn’t give them one.

523
00:36:25,920 –> 00:36:29,440
The same with the kingdoms of
the world in a moment of time

524
00:36:29,440 –> 00:36:33,920
which he saw.
I will repeat one.

525
00:36:33,920 –> 00:36:37,760
Thing about an earlier
exposition of that, if only to

526
00:36:37,760 –> 00:36:41,200
give publicity to the
mathematical acumen of our

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00:36:41,200 –> 00:36:44,880
chairman of today.
It was some years ago.

528
00:36:46,560 –> 00:36:48,640
And I wanted.
To get a picture as to how far

529
00:36:48,640 –> 00:36:53,000
someone could see from a real
high mountain on a clear day.

530
00:36:53,000 –> 00:36:55,200
If you could look around and his
eyesight was good.

531
00:36:57,320 –> 00:36:59,120
So for the.
Sake of the occasion, I imported

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00:36:59,120 –> 00:37:01,360
Mount Everest into the
wilderness of Judea, which was

533
00:37:01,360 –> 00:37:04,280
the highest pinnacle I could
think of, and approximated its

534
00:37:04,280 –> 00:37:07,560
height to 6 miles, which is not
quite right.

535
00:37:09,240 –> 00:37:11,480
And then I told.
My audience that if the Lord

536
00:37:11,480 –> 00:37:14,360
Jesus Christ were there and he
looked all around him, there was

537
00:37:14,360 –> 00:37:17,320
nothing in the way.
His eyesight was perfect.

538
00:37:18,080 –> 00:37:24,600
There was no quasi Los Angeles
smog you can see for 220 miles.

539
00:37:26,720 –> 00:37:28,320
We should have been.
Less than 1/4 of the way across

540
00:37:28,320 –> 00:37:34,920
the island of Cyprus and oh,
maybe 1/6 of the way to Rome and

541
00:37:34,920 –> 00:37:38,920
my diligent, accurate,
mathematical president.

542
00:37:39,520 –> 00:37:43,200
He wasn’t president then came to
us and said you’ve got it wrong.

543
00:37:45,120 –> 00:37:49,800
I said, oh, he said yes.
It wasn’t 220 miles, it was 219.

544
00:37:52,120 –> 00:37:53,200
Well, I was.
Grateful for that.

545
00:37:53,200 –> 00:37:54,960
I’ve actually watched it out
myself beforehand, and I knew

546
00:37:54,960 –> 00:37:57,160
that.
I also knew that Everest isn’t

547
00:37:57,160 –> 00:37:59,200
exactly 6 miles high, so it’s
going to be a bit of a guess

548
00:37:59,200 –> 00:38:01,800
anyhow.
But the important thing is that

549
00:38:01,800 –> 00:38:04,280
if you’re seeing with your own
eyes what can be seen from any

550
00:38:04,280 –> 00:38:07,640
mountain, however high.
You couldn’t.

551
00:38:07,880 –> 00:38:10,520
From the highest of them all,
see further than about 1/6 of

552
00:38:10,520 –> 00:38:14,120
the way to Rome.
And though you couldn’t with

553
00:38:14,120 –> 00:38:16,400
your own unaided.
Eyes or seen anything like all

554
00:38:16,400 –> 00:38:18,600
the kingdoms of the world, of
the glory of them you couldn’t

555
00:38:18,600 –> 00:38:22,800
see their capital even.
But it doesn’t.

556
00:38:22,800 –> 00:38:26,160
Matter by 1 means or another,
The Lord upon his high mountain

557
00:38:26,960 –> 00:38:29,920
saw clearly the kingdoms of the
earth and the glory of them.

558
00:38:31,600 –> 00:38:33,480
As clear.
As Ezekiel, upon the very high

559
00:38:33,480 –> 00:38:36,400
mountain of chapter 40 of his
book, saw the frame of the city

560
00:38:36,400 –> 00:38:39,520
of Jerusalem.
As clearly as.

561
00:38:39,520 –> 00:38:43,600
John in the vision of chapter 21
was put on his high mountain and

562
00:38:43,600 –> 00:38:45,920
saw the New Jerusalem coming
down from God out of the heaven.

563
00:38:47,600 –> 00:38:49,680
That the.
Lord saw in whatever way the

564
00:38:49,680 –> 00:38:52,680
Lord does see things and was
given the opportunity.

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00:38:52,840 –> 00:38:54,520
Take it.
Take it now take it the quick

566
00:38:54,520 –> 00:38:58,080
way.
Don’t worry about the sufferings

567
00:39:00,280 –> 00:39:05,040
and declined to do so.
Thus worship the Lord thy God,

568
00:39:05,280 –> 00:39:09,760
and him alone shalt thou serve.
That must be.

569
00:39:09,760 –> 00:39:12,120
A great strength to him when
they came and tried to take him

570
00:39:12,120 –> 00:39:15,080
by force and make him a king
after the feeding of the 5000.

571
00:39:17,280 –> 00:39:19,240
It must.
With the second case have been a

572
00:39:19,240 –> 00:39:22,080
great precedent for him.
When later, as he came mounted

573
00:39:22,080 –> 00:39:25,000
upon a donkey through the walls
of Jerusalem, they spread their

574
00:39:25,000 –> 00:39:27,960
garments and their palm these in
the way, and call up Hosanna in

575
00:39:27,960 –> 00:39:30,600
the pious.
Blessed be the Kingdom of David,

576
00:39:30,720 –> 00:39:32,760
blessed be he that cometh in the
name of the Lord.

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00:39:34,400 –> 00:39:35,520
On all three.
Occasions.

578
00:39:35,520 –> 00:39:38,080
He rejected the kingdoms in the
terms in which they offered it.

579
00:39:38,240 –> 00:39:42,360
My Kingdom is not of this world.
If my Kingdom were of this

580
00:39:42,360 –> 00:39:44,080
world, then would my servants
fight?

581
00:39:46,680 –> 00:39:48,400
So whatever you think about the
mechanism.

582
00:39:48,400 –> 00:39:50,280
Whereby the Lord was tempted in
the wilderness.

583
00:39:50,480 –> 00:39:52,840
Don’t plead it.
It’ll attempt to whittle away

584
00:39:52,840 –> 00:39:55,400
its temptation.
For if you do.

585
00:39:55,400 –> 00:40:00,720
You whittle away the victory.
You can’t see the Lord’s utter

586
00:40:00,720 –> 00:40:05,440
overcoming of the things of this
life which he could savor

587
00:40:05,440 –> 00:40:07,600
because he came in the likeness
flesh of sin.

588
00:40:09,960 –> 00:40:11,440
He learned the.
Videos by the Things that he

589
00:40:11,440 –> 00:40:13,000
Suffered Suffered.
From.

590
00:40:13,000 –> 00:40:15,000
The ideas that wouldn’t believe
in him, suffer from those who

591
00:40:15,000 –> 00:40:18,240
mocked him, suffered from the
hunger and thirst and sorrow

592
00:40:18,240 –> 00:40:21,160
that came to him, and suffered
ultimately upon the cross.

593
00:40:21,600 –> 00:40:24,520
The Lord’s obedience was hard,
won every inch of the way

594
00:40:25,720 –> 00:40:30,040
against every possible
temptation, and yielded not a

595
00:40:30,040 –> 00:40:33,680
wit.
I said there were.

596
00:40:33,680 –> 00:40:36,880
Others, and of course there
were.

597
00:40:38,800 –> 00:40:40,880
It would have been a.
Temptation, wouldn’t it, when

598
00:40:41,520 –> 00:40:44,120
the sons of Germany said to him.
But look at those horrible

599
00:40:44,120 –> 00:40:46,240
Samaritans who won’t give you a
home for the night just because

600
00:40:46,240 –> 00:40:48,280
you’re going to Jerusalem.
Shall we destroy them?

601
00:40:49,520 –> 00:40:51,240
Shall we call?
Down fire from heaven and

602
00:40:51,240 –> 00:40:56,440
consume them as Elijah did.
Lord must have known the

603
00:40:57,040 –> 00:41:00,720
feelings inside the heart of
those who come in flesh of sin,

604
00:41:00,720 –> 00:41:06,000
who want vengeance and redress.
So he must have thought that,

605
00:41:06,000 –> 00:41:09,200
and answered it for himself
before he said to them, You know

606
00:41:09,200 –> 00:41:12,080
not what spirit you are of.
The Son of Man has not come to

607
00:41:12,080 –> 00:41:14,040
destroy man’s life, but to save
them there.

608
00:41:16,160 –> 00:41:17,680
Would have been.
Temptation of some kind when

609
00:41:17,680 –> 00:41:20,640
they said get here out of this
place, go hell looking to kill

610
00:41:20,640 –> 00:41:23,000
you.
Instead, he stayed where he was

611
00:41:23,000 –> 00:41:25,400
there.
Must have been.

612
00:41:25,400 –> 00:41:27,280
Temptation.
When they said, let Christ the

613
00:41:27,280 –> 00:41:31,320
King of Israel come down from
the cross, and he didn’t take

614
00:41:31,320 –> 00:41:32,920
the opportunity, he might have
done so.

615
00:41:33,680 –> 00:41:36,680
There has been temptation when
Peter so pitifully failed with

616
00:41:36,680 –> 00:41:39,400
his one single blade in the
garden of Gethsemane, and the

617
00:41:39,400 –> 00:41:41,880
Lord could remind him up there
there are more than 12 legions

618
00:41:41,880 –> 00:41:43,760
of angels.
I could have them if I wanted.

619
00:41:45,320 –> 00:41:49,560
To save me.
From the Dukes and in not using

620
00:41:49,560 –> 00:41:54,040
them, he must have decided not
to use them, maintain this

621
00:41:54,040 –> 00:41:57,760
decision not to use them,
refused to make take advantage

622
00:41:57,760 –> 00:42:01,280
of the powers that were his,
that is faced temptation, and

623
00:42:01,280 –> 00:42:05,600
beaten it.
Once referred to.

624
00:42:05,600 –> 00:42:09,280
One actual example and one well,
they’re really both examples of

625
00:42:09,280 –> 00:42:11,880
the way in which the Lord faced
and defeated temptation.

626
00:42:12,720 –> 00:42:14,880
The 1st I’ll take from John
chapter 12.

627
00:42:19,280 –> 00:42:21,160
I don’t know why.
More use isn’t made of this

628
00:42:21,160 –> 00:42:23,480
because it does it.
Does something.

629
00:42:23,480 –> 00:42:26,200
That needs to be done about the
temptation of the Lord.

630
00:42:27,120 –> 00:42:34,800
And I don’t.
Think it can be again said in

631
00:42:34,800 –> 00:42:39,360
John chapter 12, verse 25.
The Lord in verse 24 indeed

632
00:42:40,000 –> 00:42:43,920
compares his own life and the
fruits of it to a grain of wheat

633
00:42:43,920 –> 00:42:46,320
falling into the ground and
dying, and then emerging from

634
00:42:46,320 –> 00:42:48,560
its death with abundant
fruitfulness.

635
00:42:50,040 –> 00:42:53,600
And he sees him that the death
he is shortly going to die, as

636
00:42:53,600 –> 00:42:56,640
it were, reminds himself of it,
comes, brings it freshly to his

637
00:42:56,640 –> 00:43:02,080
mind, opens his diary, and sees
what he’s going to have to do.

638
00:43:04,880 –> 00:43:07,240
And by that very fact he’s
reminded of what that suffering

639
00:43:07,240 –> 00:43:09,560
will be and how hard it will be
to overcome.

640
00:43:11,200 –> 00:43:17,000
And he says in verse 27, Now is
my soul troubled.

641
00:43:19,360 –> 00:43:20,520
And what shall?
I say.

642
00:43:22,240 –> 00:43:23,760
Father save.
Me from this hour.

643
00:43:25,640 –> 00:43:29,640
Look for this purpose.
Go around to this hour, Father.

644
00:43:29,640 –> 00:43:35,280
Glorify thy name.
Now, I’m sure there were plenty

645
00:43:35,280 –> 00:43:37,800
of people listening when the
Lord said that, but he wasn’t

646
00:43:37,840 –> 00:43:39,880
talking, as it were, to an
audience.

647
00:43:39,880 –> 00:43:42,920
He was like laying bare his
inmost feelings.

648
00:43:44,400 –> 00:43:46,760
But as death.
Loomed so close before him.

649
00:43:47,040 –> 00:43:51,040
He confessed to what it felt
like now.

650
00:43:51,040 –> 00:43:56,960
Is my soul troubled?
There are two things I might

651
00:43:56,960 –> 00:44:00,080
say.
One is Father saved me from this

652
00:44:00,120 –> 00:44:03,480
hour.
The other I’ll come.

653
00:44:03,480 –> 00:44:07,440
To in a moment.
But the Lord.

654
00:44:07,440 –> 00:44:09,280
Should be able to enunciate
those words.

655
00:44:09,280 –> 00:44:14,440
Shows that he could feel the
possibility of saying that see

656
00:44:14,440 –> 00:44:16,640
the human desirability of saying
it.

657
00:44:18,000 –> 00:44:20,200
View it as.
An escape from the troublings of

658
00:44:20,200 –> 00:44:23,360
his soul.
Is that the way I will take?

659
00:44:24,440 –> 00:44:27,880
He asked.
And then he.

660
00:44:27,880 –> 00:44:30,800
Answers himself and says, but
This is why I’m here.

661
00:44:32,600 –> 00:44:34,680
That’s the purpose.
Of which I came, if I were to

662
00:44:34,680 –> 00:44:38,960
say that that would frustrate
the purposes of God, and as it

663
00:44:38,960 –> 00:44:40,440
were.
I won’t do it.

664
00:44:40,440 –> 00:44:42,880
This is what I will say, and I
will endure the sufferings and

665
00:44:42,880 –> 00:44:45,120
the troublings and let the
Father lead me.

666
00:44:45,120 –> 00:44:47,560
In so doing, I will leave my
death in his hands.

667
00:44:48,960 –> 00:44:52,440
I’ll put away the last urge to
go any other way than his.

668
00:44:54,000 –> 00:44:56,800
I will.
Glorify his name by putting away

669
00:44:56,800 –> 00:44:59,960
all the rebellious and proud
desires of the flesh.

670
00:45:01,000 –> 00:45:04,960
I will die that the Father’s
glory in my unbroken

671
00:45:04,960 –> 00:45:07,920
righteousness shall be fully
established.

672
00:45:07,920 –> 00:45:13,520
And when the Father said in
reply to, that I have both

673
00:45:13,520 –> 00:45:19,160
glorified it, glorified My name,
and I will glorify it again.

674
00:45:20,880 –> 00:45:22,840
Whatever.
Ignorant people standing by

675
00:45:22,840 –> 00:45:27,200
might think about it, or some
said it thunders the mother

676
00:45:27,200 –> 00:45:29,560
said.
An Angel spoke to him.

677
00:45:31,160 –> 00:45:32,840
The Lord knew.
That the Father, who was well

678
00:45:32,840 –> 00:45:36,600
pleased with his baptism some
years earlier, is now well

679
00:45:36,600 –> 00:45:40,640
pleased with his resignation and
surrender again, would not fail

680
00:45:40,640 –> 00:45:44,400
him when called upon, and will
establish his glory when the

681
00:45:44,400 –> 00:45:49,320
work succeeded.
The Lord died willingly.

682
00:45:51,360 –> 00:45:54,120
But who was the cup He asked to
pass from him if it were

683
00:45:54,120 –> 00:45:56,240
possible?
When he prayed.

684
00:45:56,240 –> 00:45:59,320
Those words in the garden.
Father if it.

685
00:45:59,320 –> 00:46:01,400
Be possible, let this cup pass
from me.

686
00:46:02,200 –> 00:46:04,720
Nevertheless.
Not my will, but thine be done.

687
00:46:06,080 –> 00:46:07,880
His first?
Desire was that God’s will

688
00:46:07,880 –> 00:46:10,600
should be paramount.
No human.

689
00:46:10,600 –> 00:46:14,960
Will should interfere with it.
He may have wanted.

690
00:46:15,040 –> 00:46:17,160
Perhaps.
That the Father.

691
00:46:17,160 –> 00:46:18,760
Should remain with him till the
end.

692
00:46:19,840 –> 00:46:23,680
He should face death with his
hand in the hand of the one who

693
00:46:23,680 –> 00:46:26,280
suckered him.
That there should be.

694
00:46:26,280 –> 00:46:31,240
No period of desolation.
It would seem.

695
00:46:31,240 –> 00:46:35,200
That the Angel who appeared to
strengthen him showed to him

696
00:46:35,200 –> 00:46:38,360
that however deep and great and
loving the Father’s concern,

697
00:46:39,560 –> 00:46:43,480
even that should be endured this
separation from his father.

698
00:46:44,640 –> 00:46:46,600
To make his.
Death to sin complete.

699
00:46:47,720 –> 00:46:50,520
To cause him.
Willingly to die as a criminal

700
00:46:50,520 –> 00:46:53,040
might die.
To be hung.

701
00:46:53,720 –> 00:46:56,120
The Deuteronomy had put it upon
a tree.

702
00:46:57,000 –> 00:46:58,920
Behold be.
Taken down that day.

703
00:47:01,480 –> 00:47:03,800
So there was.
At that stage, run from his lips

704
00:47:03,800 –> 00:47:05,840
to cry.
My God, my.

705
00:47:05,840 –> 00:47:10,960
God why hast?
Thou forsaken me, not

706
00:47:10,960 –> 00:47:15,160
questioning the reason, but
finding so painful the fact.

707
00:47:15,840 –> 00:47:18,360
That the cry.
Could not be suppressed.

708
00:47:19,120 –> 00:47:22,240
How dreadful it is to die alone,
he said.

709
00:47:24,160 –> 00:47:26,040
So in the.
Darkness that fell upon the

710
00:47:26,040 –> 00:47:28,960
earth.
The Lord endured his sufferings

711
00:47:29,440 –> 00:47:34,680
in silence and in sadness and in
separation, until at last the

712
00:47:34,680 –> 00:47:39,640
time appointed came.
And seeking not to continue in

713
00:47:39,640 –> 00:47:43,720
this now fast ebbing life, he
willingly gave it up.

714
00:47:45,080 –> 00:47:49,520
He gave up the Spirit.
Having cried, it is finished.

715
00:47:50,840 –> 00:47:53,160
Father into.
Thy hands I commend my spirit.

716
00:47:54,800 –> 00:47:56,640
As though he.
Flung out into the darkness the

717
00:47:56,640 –> 00:47:59,960
light that he had carried,
knowing that there was one

718
00:47:59,960 –> 00:48:04,120
there, who, however little felt
now was still waiting, watching,

719
00:48:04,440 –> 00:48:10,000
loving, ready to help into thy
hands, I commend my spirit.

720
00:48:11,280 –> 00:48:13,200
His death was placed in God’s
hand.

721
00:48:14,040 –> 00:48:18,640
His life in God’s mercy and
faithfulness, He became obedient

722
00:48:18,640 –> 00:48:21,640
unto death, even the death of
the cross.

723
00:48:24,160 –> 00:48:26,080
Now the Lord.
‘S surrender could never be

724
00:48:26,080 –> 00:48:28,920
reversed.
Now it’s last.

725
00:48:28,920 –> 00:48:32,280
Period have been put in place.
Now the Lord.

726
00:48:32,280 –> 00:48:34,280
Would rest in peace and in
purity.

727
00:48:35,080 –> 00:48:37,080
Until that.
Time so very short ahead.

728
00:48:37,760 –> 00:48:39,400
And the Lord would.
Raise him from the dead.

729
00:48:41,000 –> 00:48:43,760
All had been surrendered.
All might.

730
00:48:43,760 –> 00:48:48,480
Now without peril to God’s glory
be granted, God in Jesus will be

731
00:48:48,480 –> 00:48:52,680
All in all.
Therefore God also hath highly

732
00:48:52,680 –> 00:48:56,160
exalted him, and given him the
name which is above every name.

733
00:48:57,200 –> 00:48:59,360
But at the name.
Of Jesus every knee should bow

734
00:49:00,120 –> 00:49:04,240
of things in heaven, and things
in earth, and things under the

735
00:49:04,240 –> 00:49:08,240
earth, and that every time
should confess that Jesus Christ

736
00:49:08,240 –> 00:49:10,640
is Lord.
To the glory.

737
00:49:10,640 –> 00:49:17,080
Of God the Father I have
glorified Thy name thus far.

738
00:49:18,280 –> 00:49:19,440
The Lord had.
Seemed to say.

739
00:49:20,640 –> 00:49:22,960
It shall now.
Be glorious forever through you,

740
00:49:23,640 –> 00:49:26,400
God says to him.
Now is his glorious reply.

741
00:49:28,240 –> 00:49:30,160
The Lord can.
Be given the greatness and the

742
00:49:30,160 –> 00:49:31,760
titles that belong to his
father.

743
00:49:33,200 –> 00:49:35,000
Yet the greatness.
And the title, even in that

744
00:49:35,000 –> 00:49:36,840
giving, will remain his father
still.

745
00:49:38,400 –> 00:49:40,960
The Holy Will.
Not give and lose.

746
00:49:41,280 –> 00:49:45,480
When the Lord takes, the Father
will give to the Son, whom he

747
00:49:45,520 –> 00:49:47,760
will never lose.
That the Father.

748
00:49:47,760 –> 00:49:51,080
And Son working together will
work out the purposes of God.

749
00:49:52,400 –> 00:49:55,160
The alpha and.
The Omega, The beginning and the

750
00:49:55,160 –> 00:49:59,000
end, the first and the last.
Which was always.

751
00:49:59,000 –> 00:50:01,000
The Father.
Our titles.

752
00:50:01,000 –> 00:50:03,840
Now which in the Book of
Revelation the Son also can

753
00:50:03,840 –> 00:50:08,080
share, having been highly
exhausted him, and as Matthew

754
00:50:08,080 –> 00:50:12,600
put it, all power having been
given unto him in heaven and in

755
00:50:12,600 –> 00:50:12,840
earth.